EILEEN F. ALMARALES NOY
CUBAN ARTIST BASED IN GERMANY

SERIE SOLES CAÍDOS:

N.1 BERLIN

FALLEN SUNS SERIES: N.1 BERLIN

Painting
2020
Acrylic on canvas
1.20 x 1.20m

NO.1 Berlin, shows "Das Haus der Statistik", which was a building erected during the GDR that is abandoned in today's Germany. This case is very common to see in this country, since many buildings and some cities of this stage are in a similar state of abandonment in the area of the former Soviet occupation. The house of statistics stands as a great ghost in the mega world capital that is now Berlin.

 

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Architectural language generally responds to the needs of the prevailing temporal power, understood in this case as political systems. These sets vary their role and importance over time depending on the evolution of each nation.  In general, past and present systems have created different forms of architecture according to an ideological validation, the socialist system that polarized the world was not exempt from this pattern. it is a human need, to express ways of thinking in concrete facts and to leave traces, although sometimes these traces are lost, according to the interests imposed by the new times.
We know the need for change and the immediacy with which contemporary societies move, that constant consumption of new paradigms drives to replace the old spaces that fill other areas of historical memory. The transformation of society goes hand in hand with the transformation of a country's image, and old projects are marginalized and even forgotten for representing failed projects in some cases. Fallen Suns positions the viewer in front of a kind of "window" with the negative form of a lattice, where ruined urban landscapes of different societies are discovered.
No.1 Berlin is a work that adopts the polyform format imitating a negative view of the classic latticework of prefabricated architecture that began to develop in Cuba with the revolution. This work presents an analysis of the current state of Germany and its link to its old system, taking as a starting point the architectural traces left by the rage of a polarized world. The viewer would become a kind of judge who observes an image filtered by his own context of these facts-buildings isolated from the present, which positions him before a reflection on the traces of socialism as a system.


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